Blimey, My Kid's the Heir to the Billionaire Boss! by Nora Hoover

Chapter 177 You're Heading for Disaster

"Ah..." Sadie Roth sobbed in utter distress. What to do? Was she going to meet her end here today?

"Mommy, if you jump, I'll jump too!" Coco tried to cheer Sadie on to make the leap.

"Of course you'd say that, you're a bird, but I'm not!"

Sadie was on the verge of tears.

Outside, the man in black continued to batter against the door-it wouldn't be long before he broke through...

But ahead was the thirteen-story fall, sure to result in injury or worse.

Trapped between a ruthless criminal and the high-rise...

It was a dead end either way!

"Jump! Jump! Jump!" Coco flapped her wings, urging Sadie.

"Forget it, if it's my time to die, then so be it!"

Sadie closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and braced herself to jump. But as the whistling cold wind brushed her ear, she pulled back, clinging to the window and wailing, "I don't want to die, oh please, my baby is still so young, and my money, I haven't even spent it all..."

"Boom!" The door burst open.

man brandished

"Ah-"

clothes snagged on the window ledge. She was stuck, unable

way!!!" Sadie's world crumbled into

launched another attack,

as he stabbed with his knife, the blade sliced through Coco's wing,

tumbled into Sadie's

end. But the knife halted a

ready

the blade

crumpled

her eyes

the doorway amidst the dark, leaning heavily against the frame, panting with the ferocity of a wild beast, an unmistakable tension in his eyes as he scanned the room for her in urgency. "You okay?" Micah Clemens's

sobbing deep and heart-wrenching. "Why did

Happiness Street.' No building

toward her, arms open wide in an inviting

his arms, Sadie didn't account for her clothes catching on the window sill. The force of her eagerness worked against her, toppling

terror, the thought of

this the day she'd meet her

swiftness of an arrow, Micah closed the distance and grabbed her hand, pulling her

crashed into the solid breadth of his chest,